In the middle of Jewish Street, very close to the Synagogue, is this small square which houses the Monument to Maimonides, one of the great thinkers and doctors of Jewish Cordoba.
He is depicted on his tomb, which is currently located in Tiberias, one of the four Jewish Holy Cities in Israel.
Moshe ben Maimon, better known as Maimonides, was born in Cordoba on 30 March 1135. Maimonides was the son of Rabbi Maion ben Yosef, with whom he was initiated into Torah study; he would later learn mathematics, astronomy, physics and philosophy.
Having fled Cordoba under pressure from the Almohads, he arrived in Cairo in 1171, where he settled as a physician at the court of Saladin, and soon attained the position of ra’is al-Jahud, or head of the Hebrew community.
In the Egyptian capital he wrote his Regimen of Health, Commentaries on the Aphorisms of Hippocrates, Commentaries on the Mishnah and Letter to Yemen, as well as his two most famous works: the legal treatise Mishneh Torah (Second Law) and the Moré Nebujim (Guide for the Perplexed), written in Arabic and later translated into Hebrew. He died in Cairo on 13 December 1204.
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